View from the Dolman

So a link that shows us as 9th and 15th over the last 6 and 10 games respectively is now "17th". Eh?

The Ricoh was always a decent hunting ground for City.

Might be a bit relevant that for one of those seasons in L1 we only had 3 stands. And Bristol Sport didn't even provide us with a replacement tent. And that "average" for the last 7 seasons appears to be made up. For the last 7 seasons, we've not had a seasonal average below 11,929 so 11.5k is impossible.

The Des Taylor stuff was being discussed at the beginning of February. I'm not sure you can draw any direct connections between that and the Pembo events.

Staffordshire Police say... "During the game some 30 Bristol Rovers supporters were ejected from the ground for a variety of offences including making racially motivated insults towards stewards." "A steward reported being racially abused and as a result a 52 year old male was arrested for racially aggravated abuse." "One 23 year old male has been arrested for the assault of an official." "One match day official was arrested for assault of an away fan." "One further arrest was made, a 52 year old male for the assault of a police officer." Full release: https://www.staffordshire.police.uk/article/7043/Disturbance-at-Port-Vale-v-Bristol-Rovers-match.

If it's important to you I was actually looking for Tin Plavotic's goal but that hadn't been uploaded yet so thought I'd give myself a moment to chuckle. Hope that meets with your satisfaction.

Decent finish for the OG! http://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/competitions/league-one/10773548/port-vale-1-1-bristol-rovers

Ah yes, the cropping doesn't help! It's the RFU statement as per the Bristol Rugby site: http://www.bristolrugby.co.uk/news/rfu-releases-investigation-statement/

Dwane Sports Group has acquired a training ground. They're beginning to sound like a franchise...

Oops, bit of a brain-freeze moment!

If the ball was bad...

Before that Chelsea's US tour. Before that the summer England U19 tournament... etc. LJ said at one point the longest break he'd had in something like 2 years was 3 days.

Doug Harman also recently resigned as Bristol Sport's company secretary.

Chris Booy? Perhaps of relevance that he resigned as a director of Bristol Sport on October 7th? Although Keith Dawe also left the board of Bristol Sport on the same day... https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/07881103/officers

Plans for a new rugby training ground in Failand... http://www.bristolrugby.co.uk/news/club-statement-bristol-rugby-training-ground/

Suspended and removed from the management team page... think that clears up his future (or lack of). http://www.bristolrugby.co.uk/team/rugby-management/

Prowed.

We were closer in points terms to 7th than we were to relegation. What a struggle!

Those threads don't appear as being locked but there is no reply option either.

Touting? What kind of stupid person tries to make money from a game that's not sold out?

Lost test match status too. Start 2017 with a 48 point deduction in the CC, -4 in the T20, -2 in the RLODC.

When was the last time you were hob-nobbing with the likes of Newcastle United and Aston Villa?

More major developments... http://www.fcbusiness.co.uk/news/article/newsitem=4563/title=arena+seating+transform+bristol+rovers%26%23039%3B+memorial+stadium "The club took the decision to lower the control room at the cost of about £10,000 to the football club" How very extravagant! "Arena Seating’s in-house CAD design and structural engineering teams combined to ensure the plans were fully approved by the clients and local licensing authorities before the South Stand was totally refurbished and given a 20% expanded capacity going from 850 to 1,056 seats. On the adjacent corner a smaller South West Stand was also installed by Arena, adding 360 seats and taking the ground’s capacity to 12,300." Feel sorry for the CAD guy who's studied his stuff and ended up designing a circus tent.